Donald Trump’s More Popular In Iowa After He Attacked John McCain

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http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/20/bad-news-republicans-donald-trumps-popular-iowa-attacked-john-mccain.html



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...Trump is playing into the Republican myth of the tough talker by refusing to apologize to McCain. Trump may be on a demented ego trip, but he is speaking the language of a segment of the Republican Party that abandoned reality years ago. The Republican plan to use his remarks about McCain to rid themselves of Donald Trump could be backfiring.

Republicans may have picked the wrong Senator to serve as their victim. McCain has long been distrusted and disliked by conservatives. John McCain is viewed in some corners of the political world as more a media creation than a beloved public figure. It could turn out that the right-wing is so crazy that attacking McCain could make Trump more popular.

If this is the case, Donald Trump may very well destroy the Republican Party.
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According to a new Monmouth Universitypoll of Iowa:

Trump’s statement about John McCain’s status as a war hero, made Saturday morning at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, IA, generated almost universal backlash from his rivals but does not seem to have had an immediate impact on his support among Hawkeye State Republicans. In interviews conducted Thursday and Friday, Trump garnered 13% of the vote to 19% for Walker. This is only slightly different than results from the Saturday and Sunday interviews, which put Trump at 13% to 25%
for Walker.
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1. Nah.

He's just a zit the RNC hasn't squeezed yet.

He'll be ripe soon enough...

[misterhighwasted]

2. Trump loves the attention, and has little love for Bush.

What if Trump beats Jeb in Iowa?!
And I'd actually watch a GOP debate with Trump taking questions.
It would be entertainment!

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3. So the narrative goes,

and I'd enjoy seeing him in a debate or two as well.

Still, I honestly maintain that Trump's just an RNC stooge who's only in the game at their behest.

If he were to go rogue (perhaps as running as an independent), the RNC (via the Kochs) would ruin him utterly.

If I seem to be developing a conspiracy mind-set here, I'm of the theory that there's at least as much dirty money behind the scenes as there is in the biggest of PACs.

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5. Oh yes, absolutely more dirty deals, & money behind the scenes.

I adhere to the conspiracy theory-ism also. I think it keeps me from going full-cult into a societal experiment.

Trump is sick entertainment. Maybe TLC will give him a time slot.

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7. "Full-cult" is a new one on me--that's good! n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Robert Altman explained the social/group/mass psychology in the last scene in "Nashville":

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6. Oh my, society is so screwed.

We have devolved